Document pipelineConstruction trades
Spec reports into finished job sheets
- Problem
- A specialty trade contractor receives long project specification reports from its customers. Each report covers every trade on the job, the format changes from customer to customer, and staff were reading them line by line so nothing in their scope got missed.
- Built
- A rule-based pipeline that reads the report, pulls out only the items in that trade's scope, applies the company's own conventions — how products are named, what gets included, how headers and job numbers are formatted — and produces a finished, print-ready job sheet.
- Why rules
- General-purpose AI tools given the same documents were less reliable: they skipped items or invented detail. Encoding the team's know-how as explicit rules made the output consistent and checkable.
- Result
- Line-by-line reading replaced by an automated first pass that a person reviews. Same format every time, and the company's tribal knowledge now lives in a system instead of in one person's head.